PEOPLE v. CARASI

No. S070839.

44 Cal.4th 1263 (2008)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. PAUL JOE CARASI, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 25, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric S. Multhaup, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey and Ana R. Duarte, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BAXTER, J.

Paul Joe Carasi (defendant) and his live-in girlfriend, Donna Lee (codefendant or Lee), were charged, tried, and convicted in the same proceeding of committing two first degree murders on Mother's Day 1995. (Pen. Code, § 187.)1 The victims were defendant's mother, Doris Carasi (Doris), and his former girlfriend, Sonia Salinas (Sonia), the mother of his child. As to each murder count, the jury...

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